TripAdvisor Reviews Al Buraimi Hotel Sohar

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... like.... Well a twisty turney thing but it makes for a great drive. For no reason we suddenly realise we've not really got down with the locals yet so we find a coffee shop and stop for a break. It seems very difficult to order a coffee, maybe he was asking about milk and sugar but we're not really conversant on the language front. Two sweet milky coffees arrive and they're drinkable. A flick through the menu reveals that it is in fact a very ...

... food and great company, including the random camel guy in the morning and potentially the owner of some of the strange footprints depending on who/what they belonged to, and excluding the scorpion under my tent!

... minutes before we arrived. After the toilet stop we drove through Sharjah and out into the desert spotting the occasional camel. The next stop was at the Friday Market which was about a kilometre of stalls along each side the road selling fruit, vegetables and carpets. The market was just as the desert ended and the Hajar mountains just near the town of Masafi which we then drove through on the way to Dibba which is on the border with Oman. We ...

... 26 Ks of up and down, does it go this way or that?, it can't be that way, oh feck! And fun, fun, fun.

I am reading Jan Morris's book Sultan in Oman which has some interesting historical references. It is easy to see why the tribes in the interior carried on being independent until mid twentieth century. Accessible only by track where journeys were measured in time not distance. Isolated gorges and valleys ...

Have had a wonderful trip on Emirates, with an hour stopover at Brisbane, thru to Dubai, arriving at 5am. Our travel-mates at this stage are Richard and Mary Jo Potez, who we have travelled with in the past. My GPS got us from Dubai to The Sohar Beach Hotel in Oman, passing ...